Desert Islands - Softcover

De La Mare, Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1589880676 ISBN 13: 9781589880672

Publisher: Paul Dry Books, 2011

Synopsis

"With its humor and its fancy and its wistfulness, [Desert Islands] is such a fountain of youth as no Ponce de Leon ever discovered." New York Times

"A vast treasure chest...to dazzle and fascinate everyone who lifts the lid."—Geoffrey Grigson

"One of those cabinets of curiosities," Michael McKeon writes in his new foreword, Desert Islands is "filled with randomly juxtaposed artifacts and devices rare and wonderful and far-flung, which long ago graced the homes of the Renaissance patriciate and then, in the hands of natural historians, became the model for the modern museum." Join Walter de la Mare as he surveys the world of islands (symbols of man's love of adventure and longing), both fictional and real, romantic and not along with shipwrecks, castaways, and solitude; pirates, explorers, and treasure; Shakespeare, Swift, Columbus, Darwin, Utopia, England; and particularly (of course), Daniel Defoe and Robinson Crusoe.

"One begins to fall under the spell, by way of Mr. De la Mare's fine sinuous prose and fanciful comments, of those distant places, those buccaneers' islands and remote wave-washed ocean rocks, by which he himself is so strongly fascinated." Spectator

Walter de la Mare (1873 1956) wrote numerous novels, short stories, essays, and poems. His Memoirs of a Midget, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, is also available from Paul Dry Books.

About this title

About the Author:

Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) wrote numerous novels, short stories, essays, and poems. He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Memoirs of a Midget (also published by Paul Dry Books). Other major works include the children's novel, The Three Royal Monkeys, Henry Broken, and The Return.

Review:

Praise for Walter de la Mare and Desert Islands

"With its humor and its fancy and its wistfulness, [Desert Islands] is such a fountain of youth as no Ponce de Leon ever discovered." New York Times

"A vast treasure chest to dazzle and fascinate everyone who lifts the lid." Geoffrey Grigson

"One begins to fall under the spell, by way of Mr. De la Mare's fine sinuous prose and fanciful comments, of those distant places, those buccaneers' islands and remote wave-washed ocean rocks, by which he himself is so strongly fascinated." Spectator

Praise for Walter de la Mare and Desert Islands

"With its humor and its fancy and its wistfulness, [Desert Islands] is such a fountain of youth as no Ponce de Leon ever discovered."―New York Times

"A vast treasure chest...to dazzle and fascinate everyone who lifts the lid."―Geoffrey Grigson

"One begins to fall under the spell, by way of Mr. De la Mare's fine sinuous prose and fanciful comments, of those distant places, those buccaneers' islands and remote wave-washed ocean rocks, by which he himself is so strongly fascinated."―Spectator

About this edition

• Publisher: Paul Dry Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1589880676
• ISBN 13: 9781589880672
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 305
• Illustrator: Whistler Rex